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Fenton, Roger
(1819-1869)Bust of Dione at the British Museum

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Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Bust of Dione at the British Museum. 1857. Salted paper print, mounted to original card. 32,5 x 24 cm (mount 58,3 x 41,8 cm). Printed annotations below the image on the mount.

In 1853, Roger Fenton was commissioned by the British Museum to photograph works from its collection, leading him to produce a series of images after classical sculpture in an open-air studio set up on the museum’s roof. Although unpaid, the project allowed Fenton to sell the prints independently, positioning these photographs within an emerging market for reproductions of canonical artworks and as tools for artistic study. The present image depicts Dione, a figure from Greek mythology often identified as a consort of Zeus and, in some traditions, the mother of Aphrodite.